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Have you ever wanted to make a pair of Indian mocassins, cook in a dutch oven or make a pair of snowshoes -- by hand, the old fashioned way? This book will teach you everything you wanted to know about survival skills -- from making saws to tanning leather to Lighting Grandma's Fire. Bill Cunningham also includes an extensive list of suppliers who can provide those hard to find old-fashioned materials.
93) Sacagawea's Son
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Presents the life story of Charbonneau, the son of the Shoshoni woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition, and details his life as a trapper, hunter, guide, gold miner, public administrator, and judge.
96) Wilderness
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Life and death in the American Wilderness where trapper John Colter ran and climbed 150 miles to escape Blackfoot warriors and hunter Hugh Glass crawled 100 miles after a bear attack.
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The 1920s and 1930s brought many exciting and true adventures to the three Hazelwood brothers, Chester, Loren, and Melvin, on their family's ranch outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado. They had many of the adventures of those earlier pioneers of the 1880s and 1890s. There were Native Americans and mountain men, terrible snow storms and severe accidents, outlaws and crooked horse traders, and narrow escapes with locomotives. Trapping brought in much of...